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heir own career or live their own American dreams.The mature economy and social system allow much more possibilities of the youth.It is the fact that we cannot deny to admit. Apart from aims to study, we come cross a more influent factor behind the differernt patterns of education—that is the traditional culture and nuclear value system in the country. The Confucianism has occupyed the most important position in the field of philosophy for more than two thousand years in China. “Learning without thought is labor lost”reminds each of us of importance of balancing learning and thinking. Ceremonial rites and regulations which it favours most are regarded highly that students are put in order by the schoolrules and the ethics exert a subtle influence on the youth to show respect to the authority, even a blind belief. That obviously has limited their imagination and creativity, which lead to their inertia to seek for a standard answer to every problem. Generally speaking, the eternal and ultimate aim of education is to gain knowledge and to get high marks or straight A. As a result of that, the common methods of study is to memorizing and exercising round and round. The old saying works much under this pattern: practise make perfect. Although the traditional pattern has been criticized for many years, the positive effects on basic education truly exist and help our students who go aboard for further studies have an advantage over the native ones. But there are negetive aspects that students under this kind of pattern lack experience of practise and cooperating and ablities of handling problems and figuring out approaches independently.Their eyesight are not as wide as the western students as well. In addition,the evaluating system attaches importance to the result instead of the process. Also that is why the education pattern in the east is called “examination-oriented education system”, despite examinations are adopted in both east and west. As we think much of results, students are seeking after high marks at all costs and ignoring to develop their real interests. Since the curriculums are fixed from primary schools to senior schools, we are told to adapt them. We don’t have any preference and alternatives. But when we go to college, we are so puzzled and upset because we have to choose our own ways to go on. It’s horrible because we have got used to having everything planned or arranged by teachers or parents. And now the responsibility are handed over all of a sudden. Moreover, students easily get contented with what their have learned, lacking curiosity and creativity to learn more and broaden their eyesight. At the same time, they cannot find a relible and firm source of confidence and the grades become kind of peacockery. Out of the dichotomy of the East and West, there is some cliche: the oriental prefer inducing ideation while the occidental prefer deducting ideation; the oriental develop relationships while the occidental favour independence; and so on. As the British author Rudyard Kipling said:”Oh,East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.”It seems that these two civillizations differs such a lot that they cannot be attempered at all. As we can see, the curriculum are similar and the way of teaching and testing are resemblant, so why do the students perform so differently？Since they walk their first steps, they begin to discover the uncharted world, trying to feel it, think about it and understand it. Kid